On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 17:48, Paul Clements wrote: > Zeno Davatz wrote: > > > I am a Debian Woody 2.4.20 user and got the following question: > > > > If I want the software raid to work do I need to compile it into the > > kernel or does it suffice if I just load the support as module? > > md generally does have to be compiled in...the raid personality modules > (raid1, raid5, etc.) can be compiled as modules... more below... > > > I was reading in the software-RAID Howto that the support should NOT be > > loaded as Module. Why would that be? > > Were they talking about _md_ needing to be compiled in? Because it has > to be compiled into the kernel if you want to use persistent superblocks > and/or use it for your root partition. I have patches against 2.4 and > 2.5 to fix this md problem, BTW, if anyone wants them...I posted the 2.5 > one a while back... Ok, thanks. This is useful. In that case I must patch the kernel with your patch or I must compile md into the kernel. Thanks for the hint. Zeno > -- > Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
